It'll be a white Christmas in Hirosaki, Japan.

Well, we're still here! 

For those of you who just tuned in, this is the second holiday season we will have spent in Japan. Aimee and I are both lucky enough to be teachers for the JET program here in Japan.  I teach English and American Culture to hundreds of Japanese junior high and elementary school students in the south western part of Aomori prefecture.  Aimee teaches high school at Chuo Koko in Hirosaki, where we presently live.  If you want to know more about our life in Hirosaki visit our home page.

Things have gone exceptionally well for us this year.  We've had an unforgettable time and can only hope yours has been filled with as much joy as ours. 

We hope you'll take a couple of minutes and look around a bit.  Feel free to drop us a line, we'd love to hear from you!

rogerandaimee@hotmail.com

Yes, we celebrate Christmas in Japan, but if you thought it was
commercialized in America . . .
Christmas is a time for romance, so you see almost as many hearts as you do snowflakes or reindeer.  While New Year's Day is the big family holiday, Japanese Children were quick to adopt Santa-san as their patron saint, and every year more and more children dream of Saint Nick bringing them that

2000 will be the year of the Dragon!  For most Japanese the New Year holiday is much  more
important than Christmas.  In fact, many students will still go to school on Christmas,
despite the fact that it's also a
Saturday!

Season's Greetings

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This holiday section and all elements in it are copyrighted by Roger and Aimee Altizer.  This site was thrown together using
Microsoft Publisher, laugh if you must, but I swear it has so many functions you'd think it was made by Ronco, the same people who brought you the home dehydrator and the Salad Shooter.  Any unauthorized duplication or distribution will result in large amounts of coal in your stocking and some pretty serious name calling.  For more information or details on how to contact us please visit our main page: A Walk in the Garden